PHOENIX - Attorneys for inmates in Arizona prison are telling the U.S. Supreme Court it should reject a last-ditch bid by the state to delay wresting away control of its health care system.
In a new filing, the lawyers detailed the 14 years of litigation, millions of dollars in fines, agreements by state officials to do better and an injunction telling the state to ensure that 25,000 inmates in state-run facilities get the physical and mental health care they are entitled to under the U.S. Constitution. In fact, they noted, the state agreed to abide by that 2023 injunction.
But they pointed out that, even now, the Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reentry admits it still isn't meeting the legal standards.
